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Cerith Wyn Evans.
Agnes Denes walking through her installation Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982) in the Battery Park landfill, New York.
Imran Perretta filming the destructors (2019).
My biggest fear is that someone will crawl into it (detail; 2017), Jonathan Baldock.
Leo Castelli in a room of the Jasper Johns exhibit at the Castelli Gallery, New York, 1958. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Your uncertain shadow (colour) (2010), Olafur Eliasson. Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna.
Self-portrait with Brush (detail; 2010–13), Maria Lassnig.
Untitled (1972), Howardena Pindell.
Jenny Holzer (b. 1950). Photograph: Anne Truitt
Carolee Schneemann holding a Venetian lion mask, photographed in London in May 2017, Photo: Benjamin McMahon
The anonymous Guerrilla Girls, artists and activists, photographed in 1990.
Elizabeth Price, photographed at her studio in London in December 2018, portrait by Tereza Červeňová
'The Golden Tower' project by James Lee Byars, part of the collateral events at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Photo: © Awakening/Getty Images
Haroon Mirza. Photo: Gaia Fugazza
Untitled (mid 1960s), Hannah Wilke.
Installation view of ‘Mika Rottenberg’ at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, 2018.
Nøtel (still; 2015–ongoing), Lawrence Lek and Kode9.
Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns (1979), Michelle Stuart.
Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the 8th Ammendment. Photo: Alison Laredo
Shia LaBeouf wearing a paper bag on his head at the premiere of the film ‘Nymphomaniac (I)’
Prisoner Pair (2008), Tacita Dean.
I Came And Went As A Ghost Hand (Cycle 2) (2015), Rachel Rossin. Installation view, Zieher Smith & Horton, 2015.